I Have A Vacation All Next Week And Have No Idea What I’m Going To Do With Myself

So I've been back on at the stations for about three months now, and now I have some time off.  But... what am I going to do?  I can't afford to go anywhere, I just got married, for pete's sake. 

I mean, don't get me wrong. I have tons of stuff I COULD be doing around the house. And I do have a couple of appointments - I have to go to the doctor on Monday, and I've been asked to speak to the Noonday Optimists on Tuesday. I bet the woodwork in the kitchen could be scrubbed. I bet the leaves could get raked. I could probably get the oil changed on my Dad's car. I've been talking about making a slow cooker chili, I bet I could do that. I'm sure I'll do some of that stuff. I know I won't be able to just sit around and do NOTHING. But... I will be knee deep in Nintendo, though.

I just got that game, and I've only played it a couple of times because I want to "save it" for my vacation. So I bet I'll have it completed in a week. In total, with weekends, I'll be off of work for nine days. So apparently that's just long enough. I read a new study out of the University of Finland, and they found the key to a perfect vacation is . . . making it eight days long.

Any less than that and you won't fully disconnect and unwind. Any more than that and the mental health benefits start decreasing. Everyone wastes time on vacation thinking about how many days they have left . . . until they head back to the soul-crushing reality of daily life. It's hard not to. At the same time, you don't want it to ruin the time off.

Luckily, a new study found the exact moment when your happiness PEAKS on vacation . . . that way you know when to start feeling like crap again. And that moment is . . . 7:30 P.M. on the THIRD day.

That's when you're fully in vacation mode . . . you still have plenty of vacation left. So I guess about Monday or so I should be at Peak Vacation.

Who am I kidding? I'm gonna be stir crazy in no time.

Staycationly yours,
Behka